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I'm only now seeing this thread, I would perhaps try to convince your husband to change golf courses. Just kidding, but that house is something.... With that view my wife would never want to enter the actual house, just put a mattress on the terrace and done... I would not mind staying out either...
Las Aromas be closer than PD from Jamao - arguably a nicer course and certainly cheaper to play. But real estate 101 suggests higher risk buying the most expensive property in the neighborhood, specially when it's not gated and the "commoners" homes don't average more than 2 or 3 million pesos...but hey what do I know...
I'll tell you it took 4 years to sell once I put it on the market, and I agree there's a lot of truth about trying to sell one of the more expensive and larger (5 acres) properties in a neighborhood. It was also a corporation which helped considerably.
No owner finance - the purchaser paid with a check.
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We built the house thinking we would live here the rest of our lives. Life changes. My kids are not interested in the DR and upon our deaths I do not want to burden them with the responsibility of getting rid of it.
We have loved being here.
I know it is probably not a place for an ex-pat, but my intuition tells me the buyer will not be a ex-pat. Each weekend Jamao is bursting at the seams at our rivers with Dominicans from SD and Santiago. Many wealthy. I see them with their honey and I see them with their kids in our little grocery store here. And I see the young adults filling the truck that takes them on one of our eco tours.
I tend to believe that a person such as this will see Jamao as their weekend escape to the campo but with all the comforts of home.
Maybe I am wrong. But that is okay. It won’t be the first time I am wrong.
We built the house thinking we would live here the rest of our lives. Life changes. My kids are not interested in the DR and upon our deaths I do not want to burden them with the responsibility of getting rid of it.
We have loved being here.
I know it is probably not a place for an ex-pat, but my intuition tells me the buyer will not be a ex-pat. Each weekend Jamao is bursting at the seams at our rivers with Dominicans from SD and Santiago. Many wealthy. I see them with their honey and I see them with their kids in our little grocery store here. And I see the young adults filling the truck that takes them on one of our eco tours.
I tend to believe that a person such as this will see Jamao as their weekend escape to the campo but with all the comforts of home.
Maybe I am wrong. But that is okay. It won’t be the first time I am wrong.
Oh, and by the way YNWA, if you need cash while you are here, I can send to to any one of the three ATM’s in Jamao. Of if you want large bills or US dollars, for trusted customers, there are a couple of businesses that will run your debit/credit card and give you cash. I can go with you. I am trusted.
And my home is not the highest priced home for sale here. There are a couple over a million dollars.
So please come and see for yourself.
And my home is not the highest priced home for sale here. There are a couple over a million dollars.
So please come and see for yourself.
This is interesting, as I have also found out that within the same family one person can indeed enjoy living in the DR while others, even for the climate, have no interest or even hate it. I'm the slightly older one of us two brothers, I have always found the climate in the DR very good due to health reasons, but my brother has only visited once for two weeks and as per his words, hated every minute due to the heat. And this was not August heat, this was close to December.
I guess then you want to reach that group with your advertising. Put up advertisements locally where they frequent and on the websites that offer these tours. Just an idea. And good luck.
We’re in the same boat. Getting older, daughter telling us to sell now, son always worried about us when we’re here. He was sure we’d be robbed or killed.
Well son came down for a week, first time in DR in 17 years. He got up and walked down to the beach for a swim every morning, loved the fruit trees, loved being here, wants to build a guest house for his family on the rear 9 tareas of our land. Now says we should be here longer than 3-4 months, that we have the perfect life, etc. Says don’t sell, he will manage everything when we’re gone (he’s fluent in Spanish). To say this has been surprising is an understatement.
First week here, a medical group offered to buy our house, pretty much full asking price. Everyone says we were nuts, but we said no. Not selling now. Time will tell if we made a mistake.
Lindsey, you just need the right buyer to see your beautiful home
Well son came down for a week, first time in DR in 17 years. He got up and walked down to the beach for a swim every morning, loved the fruit trees, loved being here, wants to build a guest house for his family on the rear 9 tareas of our land. Now says we should be here longer than 3-4 months, that we have the perfect life, etc. Says don’t sell, he will manage everything when we’re gone (he’s fluent in Spanish). To say this has been surprising is an understatement.
First week here, a medical group offered to buy our house, pretty much full asking price. Everyone says we were nuts, but we said no. Not selling now. Time will tell if we made a mistake.
Lindsey, you just need the right buyer to see your beautiful home
We started spending more time in the US because of my mom and dad (dad passed). We go back and forth about selling our place in Santo Domingo and just keeping the house in the "campo". Now with my FIL, my spouse is going back and forth to the DR more often. I always want the option of going back to the DR but right now with spending more time in the US it does not make sense to keep the place in Santo Domingo. We thought about keeping the place for my son, he grew up there, but he is not looking to live fulltime in the DR let alone in Santo Domingo. Lindsey your house is beautiful, it would be the perfect spot to live out the "golden" years. I have no doubt it will sell and the person who buys it will be lucky to have it.
This has to be the most polite "call out" I've ever heard, and being raised in the Bronx I've heard more than a few. Absolutely sublime. Nice job!
My farm sold to a young Dominican animation team member who worked in the Riu hotels here in Maimon. He met a 16 yr. old girl who was on vacation with her parents. They fell in love, saw the farm, and she told her rich parents she wanted to own it and have horses.
Rich daddy said yes, cut a check, and here we are.
The sank... err - her husband got Daddy Starbucks to buy more properties for his family before she figured out he wasn't being faithful to her and she dumped him.
As far as I know, she still lives there. She's not a young girl anymore and I'm told she is much smarter now.
Probably not much. Have you been there. Most of the houses around Lindsey's seem to be in the 5 million plus range. Are you an expert of Dominican Real Estate? Certain if you are buying to sell you are correct. Lots of expensive homes here in Jarabacoa that are not gated, and they sell fairly quickly.
Madam I know of you and the good work you do for the community that you live in, by all accounts you are possibly one of the most upstanding individuals on this board, I am far from attacking you personally. Simply my message is that real estate problems have solutions, and although you say there are properties for sale for millions of dollars in Jamao - are they really selling or is this just an exercise to please peoples ego?
I personally do not believe I can help you to sell you property, however looking at the comments telling you how nice your place is, is not helping you solve the problem you have either, it Iis simply creating a false sense of security - are offers forthcoming? Or are we satisfied with comments online saying "its worth every penny" from people with no intention of buying?
I know what I would sell my properties for - but I also know that currently no-one will pay what I want...so what use is it to me to air that on a public forum where anyone can say what they want either to suck up or to look good or make you feel good?
I deal with real estate scenarios on a daily basis and in the last 2-3 years it's hard to find a seller that has gotten full asking in 90% of the occasions...
Interesting YNWAJFT97, you have such knowledge about the DR, selling properties in the DR but yet you did not know where to buy (or if you could) products from the UK.
So today I stopped in our little grocery store. (Think large comaldo where you pay at the checkout but can pick your own choices. )The owner and his family have been very nice to me over the years. His daughter is in our Leadership Academy.
This guy has contacts. Dominicans here and in the US. His children US citizens. When I talked to him he mentioned that his wife talked to him also about my house. I mentioned that I believe it will not be purchased by an ex-pat, because Jamao is not ready for gringos. He agreed. I said what I said to you all. It will be bought by a rich Dominican who loves the campo life but wants the best of what life has to offer. You have to live here to understand this.
He agreed. (On Saturday and Sundays I do not even attempt to run in his store for a forgotten item. It is over crowded with rich Dominicans, as I previously said.) And then I added that rich Domnicans are always looking for ways to launder money. (The rules are different for Dominicans and Gringos, in case you do not understand.). His response was a strong "Claro!." With a little shy grin.
As an aside, he owns most the bancas in Jamao. Story goes Domnicans claim one or two and the others operate under the radar. His sister-in -law retired as a school secretary. She is now buying any land available and for now planting plantains. Together, they are building apartments in Jamao, She is a hard worker. I saw her with a spatula helping to install tile.
So today when I stopped in the grocery store to buy 70 pesos of broccoli I touched bases with him. Told him that I would make a pamphlet for my house and if he helps me sell it, I will pay him 3%. That would be $21,000 USD. Said I would not offer this to anyone else in Jamao.
So WNWJAFT97- I will let you know how this progresses, but also know that I am always humble and will admit to when I am wrong.
This guy has contacts. Dominicans here and in the US. His children US citizens. When I talked to him he mentioned that his wife talked to him also about my house. I mentioned that I believe it will not be purchased by an ex-pat, because Jamao is not ready for gringos. He agreed. I said what I said to you all. It will be bought by a rich Dominican who loves the campo life but wants the best of what life has to offer. You have to live here to understand this.
He agreed. (On Saturday and Sundays I do not even attempt to run in his store for a forgotten item. It is over crowded with rich Dominicans, as I previously said.) And then I added that rich Domnicans are always looking for ways to launder money. (The rules are different for Dominicans and Gringos, in case you do not understand.). His response was a strong "Claro!." With a little shy grin.
As an aside, he owns most the bancas in Jamao. Story goes Domnicans claim one or two and the others operate under the radar. His sister-in -law retired as a school secretary. She is now buying any land available and for now planting plantains. Together, they are building apartments in Jamao, She is a hard worker. I saw her with a spatula helping to install tile.
So today when I stopped in the grocery store to buy 70 pesos of broccoli I touched bases with him. Told him that I would make a pamphlet for my house and if he helps me sell it, I will pay him 3%. That would be $21,000 USD. Said I would not offer this to anyone else in Jamao.
So WNWJAFT97- I will let you know how this progresses, but also know that I am always humble and will admit to when I am wrong.
I know a lot but I never claim to know everything - it was also a tester post to see the reaction of this maligned board of keyboard warriors - maybe someone was going to enlighten me of a shop in Punta Cana that sells English stuff...admittedly I have only been to PC twice (plus I understood before you could send PM's on this forum you needed 5 posts so that was my way of approaching it). You seem sour and whoever you are and wherever you live, it seems this forum is some sort of purpose in life for you, checking every little detail and cross referencing posts as if you are some kind of FBI agent. Maybe this forum is for lurkers only and let live the people who have pie in the sky aspirations, AKA typical foreign idiots who have no idea what they are talking about.
Again I wish you all the best, but keep in mind if you accept washed money - it will eventually catch up with you...somewhere somehow...laws apply to everyone. I'm going to assume you don't have 100% dominance of the Spanish language, IE you couldn't fully understand a real estate contract written in Spanish without translation. Final thoughts, your house is not worth 700k, nor is any house in Jamao - you can all pretend what you want but worth = sold for. I'm going to post a separate listing for my place it's worth 2 million but I'll take 1 million. This whole board is not serving to help people achieve their goals, it all about blah blah blah and advice from people that have literally no idea! Maybe that's why I haven't posted here for 20 years and just looked to see who passed away, this was the most important aspect of deee arrrrr 1.
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